Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun church_calendar

1 sense of church calendar

Sense 1
church calendar, ecclesiastical calendar -- (a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals)
       => Gregorian calendar, New Style calendar -- (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)